If he became convinced that American Finance was worthless paper he got Idaho mud in the shape of "Moose Creek Placers.
I have eaten moose meat three times a day for weeks at a time, when it was cooked as described, without losing my desire for more.
The fire was built in a few seconds, much to the wonderment of our Indian guide, and the delight of some moose hunters who chanced to be crossing the portage on which our camp was located.
A very thick steak of moose meat or beef may be cooked in this manner.
The head is decorated with disks of metal and tufts of colored horse hair or moose hair and with eagle feathers to designate the particular exploits performed by the wearer.
The Moose That Walks and Rippling Water had met with good luck.
You c'n try as you like; but, clever as you are, you'll never get this yer engine to pass Three Moose Crossing.
We've got all we c'n do ter fetch Three Moose siding 'fore the limited hustles along.
And it wasn't Emile Guyot, for he is in prison at Moose Jaw.
She's just an Indian--the chore girl from Rattlesnake Ranch, daughter of The Moose That Walks.
Many precious minutes had been lost, but the engine had returned to the waiting train with a quarter of an hour to spare in which to reach Three Moose siding and get out of the way of the express.
On Monday evening I read the moosestory to the children, to their satisfaction.
It was close to noon when he turned back, and he did not return by the moose path.
There are moose and caribou in there, but I fear I disturbed your hunters," said Carrigan, grinning at the half-breed.
David could see the whole thing from his window, and when Joe Clamart came in with supper, he found the meat they were cooking over the fire was fresh moose steak.
And then he came to a beaten path, and other paths worn deep in the cool, damp earth by the hoofs of moose and caribou.
That the Indians of the Pas, Cumberland, and Moose Lake gave their adhesion to the treaty and, subject to the approval of the Privy Council, have agreed upon the localities for their reserves.
Noticing a large encampment of Indians there, I landed and found they were part of the Moose Lake band.
The Moose Lake Indians are a distinct band, and will probably desire the recognition of two separate Chiefs and the allotment of separate reserves to them.
I found that the Pas and Cumberland bands of Indians had acknowledged Chiefs, but that the Moose Lake band had none, owing to a division amongst them.
At the Narrows, at Moose Lake, there is considerable good land, and a suitable place for a reserve can be had for the Moose Lake band.
That a number of the Norway House Indians came from Moose Lake and the Cumberland region, and possessed rights there which have been included in the boundaries.
Bear and moose were common, and deer more than common, and there were wolves in a hard winter; but he was a hardy, vigorous man with hardy children, and he did well.
STORY OF TEAM, THE MOOSE There was once a young Indian, a very successful hunter.
When the father came home, he asked for the children; his wife said they had just stepped out; but when he went to look for them, he saw the moose tracks, and knew what had happened.
On the fourth day he came to a clearing where four moose were feeding, and he knew the children had found their mother.
These were the parents of all the moose that we see now.
When she, too, escaped, they fled; but any one who looked from the hut would only have seen three young moose bounding over the snow.
Bet there's a bear or a mooseright in the middle of it waiting to be made into hamburger.
He also owned Moose Island, now Eastport, and some territory on the mainland.
What about Grand Manan andMoose Island and the fisheries and our West Indian commerce?
East of the mountains there is much big game, "plenta big game;" musk ox are there, and moose and caribou.
A stretch of open, grassy moorland, where in the winter-time the moose and caribou gather in numbers seeking shelter from the winds, and finding the dried grass through the scraped-off snow.
He says, too, that I have done right to bring along my gun, for there are lots of ptarmigan as well as mountain sheep and goats in the Yukon Valley, and caribou and moose are also plentiful.
Caribou steak and tenderloin of moose we have at every meal.
Here are many flocks of wild sheep and mountain goats, and here moose and caribou are said to abound.
During the day, about the noon hour, a giant bull moose had stalked deliberately through the midst of the camp, neither quickening his pace, nor fearing man.
The wolf, too, he creep up upon the caribou, even upon the moose when he alone, when he lying down; the wolf he bites the hamstring.
Once at the moose and hastily flaying the hide from the steaming meat my attention became centered on the task.
By that time the moose meat was thawed so that we could haggle off ragged slices.
Just at the first lowering of dusk, in my peering over Barreau's shoulder I spotted the shovel-antlers of a moose beside a clump of scraggy willows.
Whoever fired the shot may have mistaken me for a moose or deer.
It was dark by the time the tree in which the remains of the moose was hung was reached, so they made camp there for the night.
Early in the afternoon Banks shot an old bull moosecarrying a fine pair of antlers.
All this suits me to the tick--working in the fields, fishing, feeding cattle, andmoose shooting.
On the following morning, while the New York sportsman and the trapper were busy over the intricate job of removing the hide from the moose head, and cleaning the skull, Rayton invented an excuse for going over to the Harley place.
Last fall he tracked a moose across a plowed field, and he has considered himself something of a detective ever since.
I left Banks and Goodine working over a moose head that Banks got yesterday.
Sometimes he did a little business in David Marsh's own chosen field, and guided "sports" into the wilderness after moose and caribou.
Also he used the end of the tail and the foot of a Porcupine, and some hairs of the Moose and of the Porcupine, bound together in a little sheaf.
Besides these foods, which this people find in their own country without cultivating the soil, they have also cereals and Indian corn, which they trade for Moose skins with the Hurons, who come down as far as Kebec or the three rivers.
They answered, or rather the juggler, always disguising his voice, that they saw a little snow and some moose far away, without indicating the place, having the prudence not to commit themselves.
We'll just cut that darn old moose right out of this thing.
Far away up the river where the old grey skull of the moose was watching for her coming.
And in his simple fancy it was sending out a message which the voiceless old moose was powerless to convey.
He had swung up the great moose head to set it in position.
It comes in the crack of a rifle, and the moose jolts round with a spasmodic jerk.
Guess there's only one laugh like yours north of 60°--less a bull moose can act that way.
Like the fallen moose his angry eyes searched the shadowed aisles for the intruder upon whom to vent his hasty wrath.
The sightless sockets of the old moose stared wide-eyed down the river.
And it's the big white heart inside you made you act that way, and I sort of feel that big white heart is still my care, even after we've made good-bye at that old moose head.
That's why I struck out on a chance for this old moose head, with my boys and dogs.
And the old, sightlessmoose gazed out in its silent, never-ceasing vigil.
Seeing I don't need 'em it leaves me trailing a bull moose that hands me a chance of getting to grips with the business of life an' death.
Guess that old moose is yearning for his place out there.
That's how it was when I saw that moosebreaking for you.
In defending his dogs from an infuriated bull moose a trapper had been badly injured.
At night you hear the bullmoose calling to his mate.
Don't you remember the other tamahnawus--that turned out to be a man in a moose hide?
The mountain Indians--the moose eaters, from the westward--are trading on the Yukon.
De bear head mus' got to git hang up right where she fall, but de deer an' de moose and de caribou head mus' got to hang up right long de water where de canoes go by.
There lay the man closely wrapped in his moose skin, fur side in, and the heavy hide frozen to the hardness of iron!
The pole slipped from the snowy mittens of the two and, enveloped in a cloud of flying snow, the man in the frozen moose hide went shooting down the slope!
From here he gained Moose Lake, and soon afterwards "the broad waters of the Saskatchewan--the first Englishman to see this great river of the western plains".
Over the whole of this edifice were spread the moose skins, covering it at top and round the sides, and made fast with thongs of the same, except that on one side a part was left unfastened, to admit of the entrance of the priest.
Footnote 5: For the word "elk" Mackenzie uses "moose deer".
The mooseare also the easiest to tame and domesticate of any of the deer kind.
According to Hearne, the flesh of the musk ox does not resemble that of the bison, but is more like the meat of the moose or wapiti.
The moose led them the most difficult route he could find.
With his guides, all armed with Winchester rifles, he penetrated far into the wilderness till he found a moose yard.
On the fifth day the moose began to show signs of fatigue; he rested often, he also tried to get around and behind his pursuers and let them pass on.
This manly exploit of the Western hunter reminds me of an exploit of a Brooklyn man, who last winter killed a bull moose in Maine.
As soon as the moose found it was being followed, it led right off in hopes of outwalking its enemies.
Their iron-work they obtained from the people who inhabit the bank of that river, and an adjacent lake, in exchange for beaver skins, and dressed moose skins.
Several have on Jackets ofMoose leather six fold, quilted, & without sleeves.
Buffalo Pound Hill Lake, sixteen miles long, begins near Moose Jaws Forks, and on the opposite or south side of this long sheet of water, we saw eighteen tents and a large number of horses.
The mooseis a very huge kind of stag, with an ugly, bulging kind of nose.
The effect was tremendous; the old moose came tearing down, and even came into the water and tried to get at him--and it was only by hard paddling that in the end he got away.
Go to the Wild that waits for me; Go where the moose and the musk-ox be; Go to the wolf and the secret snows; Go to my fate .
Fragments of pottery and bones of moose and of deer are also found in these curious heaps, and, at the bottom of one of the highest, has been discovered the remains of an ancient fireplace filled with human bones and pottery.
